Charles N. Gregory Jr. 36, former cathodic protection engineer with the Southern Counties Gas Co., retired from Pacific Bell Telephone Co.; March 13. James A. Dorrance 37, former consulting engineer for the N.Y.S. Department of Health, original coach of Peewee Hockey in Troy, and high school and college hockey coach; May 25. Orlo A. Ewing 37, whose career included working in manufacturing, management, university development, and heavy industry machine research and development in Pennsylvania, later a consultant for corporate acquisitions and mergers; May 11. C. Philip Getter 37, of Aurora, Colo., retired electrical engineer; Sept. 11, 2000. Edward J. Waring 37, retired supervisor of structural engineering for New York state, former bridge engineer, and WWII Navy veteran; Feb. 11. John P. Rowan 38, former corporate pilot for Gulf Oil and Blaw-Knox, and retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force; Feb. 19. Martin J. Schaeffer 38, retired president, A&V Service Labs, former vice president, American Chewing Products, and ham radio operator; March 16.

William Cummings 40, retired research chemist at Uniroyal and fishing enthusiast; March 26. Sigurd O. Johnson, M.M.E. 40, former sales representative at Buffalo Forge Co., and former president, Johnson & Heckel Inc.; May 26. William C. Koch 40, of Port Charlotte, Fla., retired chemical engineer; June 4, 2001. James A. Mero 40, longtime partner of the firm Harrison & Mero, Architect and Engineering, which he operated with William Harrison 32 in Troy, N.Y.; July 9. Richard M. Savage 40, retired chemist with General Electric Silicone Products Division, patent holder, and WWII Army veteran; June 23. Steadman M. Van Buren 40, retired dentist in East Greenbush, N.Y., active in Rotary, and WWII Army veteran; April 11. Robert F. McCartney 41, retired after a 50-year career with the DuPont Co., and Navy veteran; April 10. Richard L. Elliott 42, of New Berlin, N.Y., retired consultant; March 17. Douglas A. King 42, retired senior engineering specialist, hydrodynamics, Rockwell International Corp.; March 12. Carl J. Ferber 43, retired practicing physician in Cleveland, Ohio, and Army Air Corps veteran; June 4. Hugh E. Smith 44, retired patent attorney for the Norton Co., who ran a popular campers gear business in St. Petersburg, Fla., for 20 years, and WWII Army veteran; June 8.

Arthur Zimet 45, a designer and builder of houses, and WWII Air Force veteran; June 7. Walter B. Patterson Jr. 46, retired chemical engineer with Sun Co. in Philadelphia, active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and Navy veteran; April 28. Howard G. Smith 46, former economist for the Federal Reserve System and later the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, and decorated WWII Army veteran; May 16. Howard S. Jarrett 47, a retired physicist for the DuPont Co., who had numerous patents and publications; March 19. Leonard B. Mackey 47, retired vice president and general patent counsel of ITT Corp., active with the intellectual property bar and with civic activities in Rye, N.Y., and an avid sailor; April 2. Clifford J. Snyder Jr. 47, retired central office supervisor for NYNEX, and WWII Army veteran; June 1. Frederick R. Hays 48, retired physicist at American Optical, consultant to optical companies, active in community affairs, and WWII Navy veteran; June 13. Sanford C. Johnson 49, retired from Gannett Fleming, earlier with Myers-Macomber, Brookhart & Tyo, active in professional societies, and WWII Navy veteran; June 25. William E. Waldron Jr. 49, a retired tool and die engineer with U.S. Steel Corp., and WWII Navy veteran; April 14. Edward A. Wheeler 49, retired supervisor, Army Material Command Assurance Industrial Training Program, Army Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J., and decorated WWII Army veteran; June 26.

Theodore C. Carnavos 50, retired vice president and general manager, Noranda Metal Industries; May 30, 2001. Jerome Lamprecht 50, a WWII Navy veteran who founded an engineering consulting firm in Baltimore, was a lifelong aviator, and piloted a single-engine Beechcraft around the world; May 31. Charles N. Pratt 50, a former architect with Walker and Poor, J. Gordon Carr, and Edward Durell Stone, later an architectural photographer, a pioneering conservationist, and an accomplished sailor and fly fisherman; March 27. Vincent P. Poleto 50, retired chief of the bureau of engineering, Design and Construction Division, N.Y.S. Office of General Services, and Navy veteran; May 28. Warren N. Wittek 50, vice president emeritus of the architecture firm Foit-Albert Associates, former partner in Milstein, Wittek and Associates, and active community member; April 23. Bruce K. BeGasse 51, retired colonel, U.S. Army Reserve, former president, Otto A. BeGasse & Son Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y., and WWII and Korean War Army veteran; June 26. Wayne W. Gordon 51, formerly with Fafnir Bearing Co. and retired from IR Torrington Co., a founder of the New Britain Industrial Museum, and WWII Air Force veteran; June 14. Stanley F. Lash 51, retired manufacturing engineer, EG&G, who was active as Class of 51 president, fund raiser, and B.F. Greene Patroon of Rensselaer; June 2. Richard W. King 52, retired senior marketing representative for the Bethesda, Md., offices of International Business Machines; April 15. Michael Maas 53, retired senior managing partner of the Manhattan-based architectural, engineering, and interior design firm HLW, formerly Haines Lundberg Waehler, president of the Fifth Avenue Association, and Marine Corps veteran; May 12. Lawrence P. Melillo 53, M.Arch. 57, president, Melillo & Associates, Architects, in Louisville, Ky., AIA fellow, director of River Fields Inc., co-chair of the AIAs Disaster Assistance Program, designer of downtown and riverfront buildings and more than 100 churches; July 3.

David W. McGarvey 54, retired IBM manager, chairman of the Tampa Bay Sierra Club, active in his community, and Navy veteran; June 21. James R. Quinan, Ph.D. 54, retired chemist with Norton Co. and Albany International Corp., who had patents and publications in the fields of spectroscopy and abrasives, and WWII veteran; April 3. Roger E. Wiltrout 57, retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force, decorated Vietnam War veteran, and retired physical plant director, Oregon Institute of Technology; Aug. 7, 2001.